Techniques

Fabric Painting – Flowers

I decided to recreate my painting Abundance as a textile. Above – Abundance Painting (Acrylic on Wood) I usually use silk paint when painting onto silk however with this new textile I have used fabric paint and silk dye. I wanted to create a detailed fabric picture, in the past fabric paints would often go […]

Creating Textile Faces

Painting and drawing faces is very difficult and it is no different when it comes to painting a face using thread. The techniques I use to create faces in my work has evolved over time, increasing the use of thread as my confidence and skills have grown. The first textile faces I worked on was […]

A portrait of David

I took several photos of David to work from. Lots of reference photographs are vital, good photos are key to embroidering detail in the later stages.

Self portrait & animal thread paintings – video

Juanita is currently working on a self portrait, it is part of a series of thread painting family portraits. The textile is a silk painted background with machine and hand embroidery over the surface. This video details the work in progress: This next video details the thread portraits Juanita has done of animals:

Shared Jeans – repairing mistakes

This article details how I fixed a problem with one of the faces in the textile portrait of my daughter’s – ‘shared jeans’.\r\n

Enamel Portraits

I have taken up enamelling and have been doing some hand painted enamel portraits. Here are some working pictures of a portrait of Alex completed in early 2018. The first thing I need to do is cut the copper base to shape, then a base of gold flux enamel is added and fired to the copper base: […]